Hello,
I have a masters in public policy and am aware of network theory etc. However, I would not recommend coding a software from scratch. I can parse your raw data and input it into an existing visualizer, many ofLisää

I am long experienced in perl,pyhton-scripting, SQL (mysql, postgresql)and DB connections, math packages (R,gsl), and also bridging to C/C++ (with swig). I have been using gnu-plot,graph-dot, graphviz, rrdtool , and tuLisää